35 mm movie film

35 mm film is a <a href="/facts/Film_gauge/X98myuUK">film gauge</a> used in <a href="/facts/Filmmaking/GL8DJm3W">filmmaking</a>, and the film standard. In <a href="/facts/Motion_pictures/wM3b9Kk3">motion pictures</a> that record on film, 35 mm is the most commonly used gauge. The name of the gauge is not a direct measurement, and refers to the nominal width of the <a href="/facts/35_mm_format/5MU6mXr0">35 mm format</a> <a href="/facts/Photographic_film/37aFq6ls">photographic film</a>, which consists of strips 1.377 ± 0.001 inches (34.976 ± 0.025 mm) wide. The standard <a href="/facts/Negative_pulldown/8Hk36x71">image exposure length</a> on 35 mm for movies ("single-frame" format) is four <a href="/facts/Film_perforations/nA8gm7yu">perforations</a> per <a href="/facts/Film_frame/27Uqo8WN">frame</a> along both edges, which results in 16 frames per foot of film.
A variety of largely proprietary gauges were devised for the numerous camera and projection systems being developed independently in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, along with various film feeding systems. This resulted in cameras, projectors, and other equipment having to be calibrated to each gauge. The 35 mm width, originally specified as 1+3⁄8 inches, was introduced around 1890 by <a href="/facts/William_Kennedy_Dickson/afstskYt">William Kennedy Dickson</a> and <a href="/facts/Thomas_Edison/IeDbdyP4">Thomas Edison</a>, using <a href="/facts/120_film/Klj2xUvp">120 film</a> stock supplied by <a href="/facts/George_Eastman/8FxpnoKV">George Eastman</a>. Film 35 mm wide with four perforations per frame became accepted as the international standard gauge in 1909, and remained by far the dominant film gauge for image origination and projection until the advent of digital photography and cinematography.
The gauge has been versatile in application. It has been modified to include sound, redesigned to create a safer <a href="/facts/Film_base/ANtlh0G7">film base</a>, formulated to capture color, has accommodated a bevy of widescreen formats, and has incorporated digital sound data into nearly all of its non-frame areas. <a href="/facts/Eastman_Kodak/zMnK74Cp">Eastman Kodak</a>, <a href="/facts/Fujifilm/jkNJkzet">Fujifilm</a> and <a href="/facts/Agfa-Gevaert/TNsfjVuj">Agfa-Gevaert</a> are some companies that offered 35 mm films. As of 2015, Kodak is the last remaining manufacturer of motion picture film.
The ubiquity of 35 mm <a href="/facts/Movie_projector/SXzyFeDQ">movie projectors</a> in commercial <a href="/facts/Movie_theater/oSkG3tKp">movie theaters</a> made 35 mm the only motion picture format that could be played in almost any cinema in the world, until <a href="/facts/Digital_cinema/fc312V6y">digital projection</a> largely superseded it.

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35 mm movie film